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Chat Travieso maakte deze Word Play. Het ontwerp gaat over dingen die we vast niet hoeven uit te leggen; twee talen, lekker lezen en lekker zitten plus de mobiliteit van het object zelf.
An open, airy floor at the New York Public Library offers kids spots to play Wii and Guitar Hero, along with books and homework help.
Presentation from workshops held across the country in May 2012 for Envisioning the library of the future, our programme of research and debate www.artscouncil.
This is an exciting development for Canadian publishers and libraries to promote and offer Canadian content to their communities and cardholders. The Gibson brothers have a long, successful history of innovation in Canadian libraries and Canadian digital content. It is worth investing time in understanding this transformational approach.
Arts Council England publishes research into the library of the future WebWire (press release) Arts Council England is today publishing Envisioning the library of the future – a major research project* undertaken over the past year that will help...
Describing the Labrary, LTK instructor Jeff Goldenson said that it’s “a place where libraries can outsource risk and innovation,” a “pop-up R&D department” that explores ideas too disruptive for a traditional library location (for more, see “Making Room for Innovation” by Goldenson and Chattanooga PL’s Nate Hill). By bringing student projects to the public and inviting interaction and response, the Labrary became an exploration of what it means to be a library space. Though it was only open briefly, the Labrary suggested new ways of looking at nontraditional library space design.
I recently spoke briefly at an all day retreat at our college about why I am involved with diversity work on campus (I'm a member of the faculty Multicultur
Last week I had an interesting Twitter conversation regarding a popular rhetorical strategy surrounding maker-spaces, New Librarianship, participatory culture, and the other assorted "big ideas" fo...
The concept of a library is going to be re-invented in Texas with the launch of a public library with digital rather than printed books.
The Seattle Public Library launched a new pilot program today called Books on Bikes, which sounds exactly like what it is: A small, portable library...
Two library service prototyping spaces, in two very different places, have a remarkable amount in common. Nate Hill runs and operates the 4th Floor in Chattanooga, a large public library loft space operating as a flexible community makerspace and event space. Jeff Goldenson co-ran and operated Labrary, a 37-day design experiment occupying a vacant storefront in Cambridge.
Which brings us to the transformation of library leadership: In the traditional library, hierarchical organization and management reign. In the transformed library, managers now serve as team leaders and technical knowledge is ...
A look at how America's central libraries are struggling to adapt their forms and functions to a rapidly changing world
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FrankenLibraries: The Latest TrendsStephen Abram, MLSNew Jersey Library Association, Atlantic City, NJJune 5, 2013
The main reason most parents go to libraries is to get books for their kids. So what becomes of the magic of being surrounded by books when e-readers become more prevalent?
Check out what just popped up in the nolita neighborhood of New York City. A Little Free Library courtesy of a partnership between the Architectural League of New York and PEN World Voices Festival.
My library is thinking about recharging stations for mobile devices. So I'm looking into outlets with USB slots, special stands, etc. How come? Because
Technology will disrupt higher education argues a university dean. Libraries will be turned into career centres and residences into senior homes
Public libraries have always been in a unique position to help local writers connect with readers in their communities. The advent of self-publishing platforms presents libraries with a new resource to enhance that connection and reinforce their place at the center of community cultural life. Last year Los Gatos (Calif.) Library began a partnership with e-book self-publishing company Smashwords to offer a three-part series of e-book self-publishing seminars. This partnership has grown to include a co-branded publishing portal managed by Smashwords. Linked from the library website, the portal enables local authors to publish and distribute e-books at no cost and allows them to "Publish to the Library" if the library chooses to purchase their work. Find out how Los Gatos Library developed this partnership and how your library can easily do the same
Review of the newly opened Digital Public Library of America.
Bleacher seats in the West 53rd Street Branch design | © TEN Arquitectos NEW LIBRARIES In 2008, the Donnell Library Center on West 43rd Street was sold to a hotel developer and closed.
BiblioBoard Creator, offers a subscription service that will allow users to download and view anthologies created by libraries and other third parties.
In what could be its most radical makeover in a century, the State Library will be transformed from a mere repository of books into a hot-wired hub of the digital age. Mark Baker reports.
QR codes are useful IF your library clients know what to do with them, if your staff know how to generate them and if you need to connect your physical and online spaces for some reason. (They also create pretty nifty storytelling pyjamas and quite informative carpets).
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Another cool new library from Europe. More about the public spaces than the books.